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drabble.

To wet or dirty, especially by dragging through mud.

7 characters2 syllables approx.English language

Meaning & usage

verb/ˈdɹæbəl/
  1. To wet or dirty, especially by dragging through mud.

    transitive
  2. To fish with a long line and rod.

    intransitive
Where this word comes from

Inherited from Middle English drabelan.

noun/ˈdɹæbəl/
  1. A short fictional story, typically in fan fiction, sometimes exactly 100 words long.

Where this word comes from

From a game in Monty Python's Big Red Book in which the first player to write a novel wins; possibly derived in turn from the surname of the author Margaret Drabble.

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